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Oracle and AWS partner for Oracle Database@AWS

Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are launching Oracle Cloud offerings on Amazon's cloud platform. This solution enables customers to access Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS. It will also allow customers to connect their e...

September 10, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft signs rooftop solar PPA in Singapore

Microsoft has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with EDP Renewables (EDPR) to purchase 100 percent of the renewable energy exported to the grid from the energy firm's 200MWp SolarNova 8 project. EDPR said phase eight of the SolarNova program is both the largest solar project in Singa...

September 05, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Gold Fields migrates to AWS

Mining company Gold Fields revealed at the recent AWS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa that it has migrated its SAP and treasury systems to Amazon Web Services. Gold Fields has been able to adopt advanced analytics, machine learning (ML), and generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabil...

September 03, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft signs new renewable energy deal in India

Microsoft this week announced the signing of a green attribute sale contract of 437.6MW with Indian renewable energy firm ReNew in a deal said to be amongst India's largest corporate renewable agreements. As part of the agreement, ReNew will direct approximately $15 million of revenue from t...

August 29, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft petitioned for illegally dumping waste in local lake

Residents in Mekagunda, a village near Indian tech hotspot Hyderabad have filed a petition against Microsoft, and 35 other companies and government bodies in Telangana's High Court, alleging that Microsoft has illegally occupied land beyond its property, and is dumping industrial waste into a...

August 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Equinix explores deployment of hydrogen fuel cells at Dublin data center

Colocation firm Equinix is exploring deployment of hydrogen fuel cells at its data center in Dublin, Ireland. A spokesperson for the company noted that while a temporary demonstration pod was deployed at one of the company's sites on tour from ESB and GeoPura, is not a permanent deployment. P...

August 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

NextDC launches new facility in Darwin

Australian data center firm NextDC this week officially opened D1 data center in Darwin, developed in partnership with the Northern Territory Government and Vocus. NextDC CEO Craig Scroggie said: “D1 will play a pivotal role in accelerated computing and represents the next step towards achiev...

August 16, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NEXTDC

Amazon plans data center expansion in Hyderabad, India

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has confirmed its plans to expand its data center presence in Hyderabad, India with investment in the Telangana region. The discussions were held in California in the US, and have seen AWS express a desire to expand its data center facilities and workforce in Hyderaba...

August 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft partners with Palantir on AI for US defense and intelligence Community

Microsoft and Palantir Technologies are teaming up to provide cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics capabilities to the US Defense and Intelligence Community units to help them access Microsoft's large language models (LLMs) via Azure OpenAI Service within Palantir's AI Platforms ...

August 11, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Equinix surpasses $1bn EBITDA for Q2

Equinix has surpassed a $1 billion EBITDA in Q2 2024 for the first time, reaching $1.036bn. The company Equinix has surpassed a $1 billion EBITDA in Q2 2024 for the first time, reaching $1.036bn. Furthermore, the quarter's results saw operating income up 20 percent compared to the previous qua...

August 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

NextDC receives Nvidia DGX-Ready data center certification

Australian data center operator NextDC has received Nvidia DGX-Ready certification which enables the operator to support Australian organizations with digital infrastructure architectures designed for Nvidia's artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. NextDC's chief customer and commercial offi...

August 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NEXTDC

AWS revenue hits $26.3bn for Q2 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) brought in $26.3 billion in revenue for Q2 2024, an 18.8 percent jump over last year. However, Amazon still recorded a slower growth rate than its main rivals, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, both of which saw growth of 29 percent in the quarter. The growth of AW...

August 03, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Microsoft signs carbon removal deal in California with 3Degrees

Microsoft has signed a new cabon capture deal with climate solutions provider 3Degrees to purchase more than 80,000 metric tons of carbon removals from Western Rivers Conservancy's (WRC) Blue Creek Improved Forest Management Project, located in Northern California. "Microsoft's investment in...

August 02, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

CFS signs multi-year agreement with Microsoft for cloud and AI

Australian wealth management fund Colonial First State (CFS) has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) services which will see CFS continue to use Azure as its preferred cloud provider and deploy generative AI use cases in collaboratio...

August 02, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft accuses Google and AWS of 'muddying' UK CMA investigation

Microsoft has claimed that its rivals Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google are 'muddying the waters' of the antitrust investigation currently underway by the UK Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA). Google reiterated the criticism of Microsoft in its six-page response. which said; "We be...

July 29, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft plans to deploy Lumen’s Private Connectivity Fabric to Azure

Microsoft has announced plans to deploy Lumen’s Private Connectivity Fabric (PCF) to improve its data center network infrastructure. Lumen will also migrate its workloads to Microsoft Azure and work with the company to deliver “telecom industry-specific solutions.” Erin Chapple, corporate vi...

July 27, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Equinix announces expansion into the Philippines with three data centers

Equinix this week announced that it will be entering into the Philippines market after purchasing three facilities from Total Information Management, a local technology solutions provider. This deal comprises three carrier-neutral and interconnection-rich data centers with more than 1,000 cabi...

July 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Equinix

Microsoft invests in rare earth materials startup

Microsoft has made an equity investment in a rare earth materials startup focused on recycling hard drives, Canada’s Cyclic Materials, a metals recycling company that has developed a patent-pending technology, CC360.“Microsoft is working to achieve zero waste across our direct operations, p...

July 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Armada secures equity funding from Microsoft

Edge computing firm Armada has closed $40 million in funding led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. As part of the deal, Armada’s offerings will be made available on the Azure Marketplace.“This investment propels our total funding to over $100m and marks a significant milestone in our journey t...

July 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

AWS partners with Australian government for high-security data center development

Amazon has partnered with the Australian government for the development of a high-security data center that will handle top-secret information with an investment of A$2 billion to be made over the next decade. Due to the "top secret" nature of the project, neither the location nor the specific...

July 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

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